A current contest for the Summer of Yarn Love swap....My favorite summertime memory spanned ages 8 or 9 through about 14. Girl Scout camp.
Each summer I'd spend two weeks at Girl Scout camp. Camp Metamora, near Metamora, Michigan.
I was one of those kids who lived year to year with camp as the highlight of my year. I completely understand all the camp movies where the kids were obsessed with summer camp.
But Girl Scout camp doesn't last all summer like the ones in the movies. It lasts just two weeks. But for 5 or 6 years, they were the best two weeks of my year.
I was the only girl from my troop to go to camp. No one else seemed interested. But I've always been pretty independent, and I never remember it bothering me to be there and not know anyone else. When I was littler I'd attach myself to one of the counselors. I think that was my way of handling being on my own.
Each summer we'd do basically the same things: swimming, boating, hiking, arts & crafts. As I got older, the "units" tended to concentrate on a big trip of some sort. One year we backpacked along the AuSable. Another year we canoed the Pere Marquette River.
Looking back, I'm not sure if I can pinpoint exactly why I loved summer camp so much. Maybe part of it was being on my own. And I just loved Girl Scouts -- learning the skills, earning badges, cooking over the open fire, making new "best" friends. Lovely memories of summers long ago.
2 comments:
Hey, Heather, when were you at Camp Metamora? My mom used to work there and I lived at camp the entire summer. It was kid nirvana.
Funny, I was in girl scout camp in Illinois and I think it was at Pere Marquette lodge. Not the same as yours, but still quite a coincidence.
We did all you did plus archery and riflery. Today I find it hard to believe that I used to be able to fire a rifle!
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